Good work, nice variety of patterns and well tied. Good photography too mate. looks like you thought about it a bit.
Some flies are barbed some not, main reason?
Great to see a soft hackle in there, do you fish that year round?
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Thanks Nomads. Getting there on the photography. Regards the barbs, I'd prefer barbless and often crimp my barbs on the river although I'm not religious about it. And soft-hackles are definitely a mainstay. Excellent fished just beneath a dry or behind a heavier fly deeper in the column.
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Re: A few recent ties Reply #5 - May 17th, 2016 at 9:02pm
Good to hear. I have fished only wee wets and small soft hackle/ emergers etc this summer season just past. While I did not fish alot, i fished a few good streams, both North and South, and never had a blank session. I fricken love these types of flies. Plus I enjoy the method of fishing them.
My pic is a bit slack (Ignore the PT's on the right)
The fly beneath the razor has account for the most fish. Browns and rainbows, fished in any depth or flow. Next are the green guys top left with bead, fished through faster water cheers damon
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Re: A few recent ties Reply #6 - May 18th, 2016 at 11:19am
Badger and Nomads these are all cracking ties. I have just starting to fish wee wets this past season with little success, plenty of hits but few hook ups. Bit more research needed.
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Re: A few recent ties Reply #7 - May 18th, 2016 at 12:48pm
you liked that? Check these out. Tied from mallard feathers i got on opening weekend. More for decoration these flies, although i will try them, I don't expect heaps of performance. All in size 12. all on size 14
I sometimes get fish having a go at the fly and then dropping off too. I have found that having a little slack in the tippet helps, but then you run the real risk of missing strikes.
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Re: A few recent ties Reply #8 - May 24th, 2016 at 9:08pm
They certainly look the part NOMADS a bit off topic but I have read that when fishing the wee-wet you need to keep a loop of line (not sure of the size yet but maybe 400mm dia) between the reel and where you hold the line and when a fish takes let that loop go allowing the fish to turn and then strike. Going to have to keep the reactions in check!
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Re: A few recent ties Reply #9 - May 25th, 2016 at 10:43pm
Hey DAD, I was told something similar by good sources when I announced my season of wee wets ahead. After a very short amount of time I understood the principle of what was being described.
What you are trying to avoid is the tippet hitting breaking strain right at strike time: EG if your rod tip is down , and the rod direction is the same as the line direction when on the swing, when a fish hits it there is no 'Give" anywhere and you get a bust off.
There are several recommended fixes: Yours with the loop is Good. Another is keeping a belly in the line between the rod tip and where the line hits the water. Keep the rod tip up when on swing or in strike zone, you can see a strike when the belly lifts and straightens. The belly takes up the tension reducing bust off.
Another way, also in addition to the belly, is simply keeping the rod direction as perpendicular as possible to the line direction when in strike zone. EG if the line is pointing down stream , the rod should be pointing across stream, that way the rod provides some give at time of strike.
To be honest, this method of fishing has become my GO TO. it has cost me fish (when I should have been nymphing) but it is bloody addictive. I have used it up stream, across and also down. in all levels of the water column and it works.
Not sure how effective it will be over winter tho.
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Re: A few recent ties Reply #10 - May 28th, 2016 at 1:13pm
Prior to the mid 1970's nymphing was unheard of. It was when Tony Orman published his book on Nymphing that we all started to take notice and try these new fandangled things called nymphs... up until then we used dries or wee English wets.. hence a lot of fishing was done mid day or in the evening.
Nice ties guys. My absolute favourite style on the Tongariro from Oct to April is a wee wet (very similar to Badger's bottom photo) on #16 hook on a 4" - 6" dropper under a humpy or caddis fished across and down. Probably accounts for more than half my catch (and represents about 10% of how I fish) - so its very effective. Its an economical method of fishing (no lost rigs in all the damned snags when fishing the lower reaches, and no weight on the rod (until a fish is on) as opposed to shooting head, or full sink or fast sink tip wet lines. Go the wee wets!
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Re: A few recent ties Reply #14 - Jul 27th, 2016 at 5:10pm
Good stuff, but now you are giving the Game away...!
Any extra wing /legs like that on a nymph works bloody well. Try adding a bead head and a long leader so you can swim it up stream underwater (like wet lining).
Thanks for keeping the thread alive too.
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Re: A few recent ties Reply #17 - Oct 20th, 2016 at 11:26am
I am in the process of tying Czech nymphs but 403BL[size12] Tiemco are rare as hens teeth in NZ.Snagged a packet off the very helpful Markus in Auckland.Google Zak Nymph. It has the clue that I think all nymphs need.In fact it has 3 ideas which I think need to be incorporated. Waiting for an order of 20 freshwater Marlin killers to arrive from Tauranga.Trying to replicate his style is a waste of time.
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Re: A few recent ties Reply #18 - Oct 21st, 2016 at 2:51am